My Year with Eleanor
A Memoir

I think they call this genre "stunt nonfiction" - do something for a year, blog about it and then get a book deal. I had two of these books to read, this one and one about a Kiwi guy whose goal was to work on every continent in the world before he was 30. When I started Noelle's book, I found it quit......more

Objectively, this isn't the greatest or most literary memoir I've ever read, or even the most inspiring. That being said, if you're a therapist working with anxious clients who would like to recommend a book that isn't overly clinical or self-helpy, this is a good choice. It's a readable and engagin......more

A pretty fun book overall. It's in the category of books where an author decides to do something for a year & then write a book about it. In this case, the author is having a young-life (age 28 or 29) crisis after she got laid off from work. She decides to follow advice from Eleanor Roosevelt & face......more

This is another of those "do-something-for-a-year-and-write-about-it" books, which is so trendy, but I thought this one was well-written. After losing her blogging job, Noelle becomes inspired by an Eleanor Roosevelt quote about fear and decides to spend a year doing things that scare her. One of th......more